true love doesnt die in the darkness. it comes crawling out on bloody hands & knees, beaten, bruised & barely breathing, but still alive

one day when you truly know love you will understand.

Had you of taken the time to heal like you said you needed to (the entire reason you broke up with me..) then I wouldn't be so upset. I understand your loneliness, this most likely being the reason you've decided to put yourself back out there.. But by doing so you not only betray me but you betray yourself. Your need for constant distraction is you hiding in fear from something. Your hatred for being alone is a fear of really facing yourself and your pain. Sometimes you have to rip open those wounds and crawl around inside them, in the darkness, because once the bleeding starts the healing can begin.

I mourn for the pieces of me that will never know anything other than your name.

You never deserved my heart.

this is my heart damnit. you didnt care enough to love it so you walked away. remember when I said he would never walk away? he would never just let me leave. that automatically makes him more worthy of my heart than you. you're no longer welcome in here. please leave.

“If you don’t know love, someone will come along and teach you how to hate yourself, then you’ll confuse the two!”

No one can tell you all that love is, but I can tell you what it isn’t. One thing that I’ve found to be true is that REAL LOVE doesn’t hurt – at all. And when you are hurting, it’s not from a place of love! Don’t confuse the two.

So many people have entered into a relationship where neither party knew real love. Then their insecurities surfaced and they projected them onto one another. Next they selfishly tried to make the other person fill voids in their life. Miserably, they failed. It resulted in fights and nights filled with tears. Then to top it off, they called it love!

News flash: that’s not love, that’s self-hate.

Evaluate your relationship today. If your partner isn’t adding to you then they are taking away from you. It is very possible to have a relationship without any love in it. So please don’t label a toxic relationship as love. It’s part of the reason why love has a bad name today.

Before you can love anyone, you must first love yourself. A part of loving yourself is being strong enough to let someone go so that the both of you can grow. Then take time to learn what real love is and what a healthy relationship is. Then, and only then, are you ready to enter into a relationship.

Love speaks languages of it’s own and pain isn’t one of them.

~ Tony A. Gaskins Jr.

this.

he wouldnt just walk away. he wouldnt just let me leave. that automatically makes him more worthy of my heart than you.

I don't hate you, I'm just disappointed you turned into everything you said you'd never be..

When we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-hearted,
To sever for years,
Pale grew thy cheek and cold,
Colder thy kiss;
Truly that hour foretold
Sorrow to this!

The dew of the morning
Sunk chill on my brow;
It felt like the warning
Of what I feel now.
Thy vows are all broken,
And light is thy fame:
I hear thy name spoken
And share in its shame.

They name thee before me,
A knell to mine ear;
A shudder comes o’er me -
Why wert thou so dear?
They know not I knew thee
Who knew thee too well:
Long, long shall I rue thee
Too deeply to tell.

In secret we met
In silence I grieve
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee? -
With silence and tears

~ Lord Byron

RISE AGAINST - SAVIOR

It kills me not to know this but I've all but just forgotten
What the color of her eyes were and her scars or how she got them
As the telling signs of age rain down a single tear is dropping
Through the valleys of an aging face that this world has forgotten
There is no reconciliation that will put me in my place
And there is no time like the present to drink these draining seconds
But seldom do these words ring true when I'm constantly failing you
Like walls that we just can't break through until we disappear

So tell me now
If this ain't love then how do we get out?
Because I don't know
That's when she said I don't hate you boy
I just want to save you while there's still something left to save
That's when I told her I love you girl
But I'm not the answer for the questions that you still have

But the day pressed on like crushing weights
For no man does it ever wait
Like memories of dying days
That deafen us like hurricanes
Bathed in flames we held the brand
Uncurled the fingers in your hand
Pressed into the flesh like sand
Now do you understand?

So tell me now
If this ain't love then how do we get out?
Because I don't know
That's when she said I don't hate you boy
I just want to save you while there's still something left to save
That's when I told her I love you girl
But I'm not the answer for the questions that you still have

1000 miles away
There's nothing left to say
But so much left that I don't know
We never had a choice
This world is too much noise
It takes me under
It takes me under once again
I don't hate you
I don't hate you, no

So tell me now
If this ain't love then how do we get out?
Because I don't know
That's when she said I don't hate you boy
I just want to save you while there's still something left to save
That's when I told her I love you girl
But I'm not the answer for the questions that you still have

I don't hate you
I don't hate you, no

Ani DiFranco - Done Wrong

and before it gets so cold
that the rain turns to snow
there's just a couple things
i'd like to know

like how could you do nothing
and say, i'm doing my best
how could you take almost everything
and then come back for the rest
how could you beg me to stay,
reach out your hands and plead
and then pack up your eyes and run away
as soon as i agreed

it just all slips
away so slowly
you don't even notice till you've lost a lot
i've been like one of those zombies
in vegas
pouring quarters into a slot
and now i'm tired
and i am broke
and i feel stupid and i feel used
and i'm at the end of my little rope
and i am swinging back and forth
about you

before it gets so cold
that the rain turns to snow
there's just a couple things
i'd like to know

like how could you do nothing
and say, i'm doing my best
how could you take almost everything
and then come back for the rest
how could you beg me to stay,
reach out your hands and plead
and then pack up your eyes and run away
as soon as i agreed

I wish we'd met when I thought I could fly; when you believed in magic. I wish we'd met before the world stripped us of our innocence. ~ Heather Grace Stewart

I look into your eyes and see the whole universe not yet born. ~ Rumi

bury all your secrets in my skin..

Before you doubt Love, doubt your own limitations. ~ Sean Harrison

I wish we'd met when I thought I could fly; when you believed in magic. I wish we'd met before the world stripped us of our innocence. ~ Heather Grace Stewart

transcending: an evolution of self

I once found shelter in burning bridges,
under where you left pieces of yourself
scattered... in the all around never ending of me..
....you've only yet to find the winds still whisper my name
.......as if it hasnt always been written on the tip of your tongue